Re: [PATCH] (urgent) ppc32: Fix CPUs with soft loaded TLB

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:25:32AM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:

> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 16:20, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >>On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >>
> >>>The recent introduction of ptep_set_access_flags() with the optimisation
> >>>of not flushing the TLB unfortunately broke ppc32 CPUs with no hash 
> >>>table.
> >>>
> >>Makes sense, applied.
> >>
> >
> >ARGH. Missed one file. Here is an additional patch (missed tlbflush.h 
> >patch)
> >
> >Sorry.
> >
> >This adds the definiction of flush_tlb_page_nohash() that was missing
> >from the previous patch fixing SW-TLB loaded PPCs
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[snip]
> Hi
> 
> Unfortunately this is not enough for me on 8xx.
[snip]
> In order to fix this I now have to remove update_mmu_cache  by defining 
> it empty.
> 
> Please see the following patch.

But this now matches the way things are on 2.4, so is it really a
problem?

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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